What would Europe do if Trump won?
Even as NATO meets, Europeans are exploring a plan B
DONALD TRUMP’S cant about the war in Ukraine drifts over the battlefields, dark as the pall of Russian bombs. “I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians,” he declared in May. If re-elected president next year, he would end the war “in 24 hours”. How? He did not say, but his words imply halting military aid to Ukraine and letting Russia keep the gains of its invasion.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Protector or problem?”
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